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Miss Representation, as the title suggests, is a film about gender misrepresentation. Eastern Mennonite Student Women’s Association (EM- SWA) showed the film and hosted a talk-back in Common Grounds on Tuesday evening. Sophomore Courtney Jones, who helped to host the… Read More ›

Bug splats. That is what the American operators of drones, sitting in safety thousands of miles away, call the casualties of a drone attack in Pakistan and Yemen. Why bug splats? Because that is what a human body zapped by… Read More ›

Linda Nyce, Ph.D., turned down EMU’s offer for the position of Vice President and Undergraduate Academic Dean. One might think that losing a candidate of choice is a bad thing for the university. Au contraire. EMU now has a new and… Read More ›

Eastern Mennonite University is home to one of the most seminal Restorative Justice programs in the world, as well as some of the most prolific pacifist theologians. Yet there is a gap in the perceived embodiment of justice at EMU…. Read More ›

First, I must confess that every time I prepared to sit down and write this article, my chest would tighten in a fit of anger. While I like to pretend for my own sanity that EMU exists in a semutopian,… Read More ›

Last Wednesday, March 13, the president’s cabinet approved the Conflict-Free Resolution presented by Eastern Mennonite’s Conflict-Free Campus Initiative. The resolution states that EMU will support companies that use conflict-free minerals, specifically in the area of hardware-technology purchasing and consumption. With… Read More ›

Students are pulling together to renovate Park Cabin. They are raising money to remove the asbestos tiles from the floors, replace the doors and windows, fix water damage, and fund other efforts to restore the cabin. This Friday, March 22,… Read More ›